I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDWeakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don’t know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.
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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses.
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? – Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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As for me, I am intact; and I don’t care.
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Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?
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Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
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It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn’t he?
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